Richard Rossâ€™s new book, The Architecture of Authority, illustrates how the physical spaces of prison, the police station, confessional, and even school force us to negotiate with these institutions for our autonomy and, in some cases, our freedom.

My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from BogotÃ¡, Colombia. While the courts p rocessed her paperwork, we spent two months in BogotÃ¡ waiting to take Carmen home.

Carmen's birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. “I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity,” she wrote, “When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things.”

With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place. — Alec Soth.

My name is Jesper Ulvelius. I have just moved to Gothenburg to get my bachelor in Photography. I am more interesting in showing the process of photography rather then just the final result. Failure doesnâ€™t have to be bad, just another way of success.